Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922-16 February 2016) was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1992 to 31 December 1996, succeeding Javier Perez de Cuellar and preceding Kofi Annan.

Biography
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born on 14 November 1922 in Cairo, Egypt to a family of Coptic Christian Egyptians, and he was the grandson of Prime Minister Boutros Ghali. In 1946, he graduated from Cairo University and studied overseas at Columbia University in the United States and at the Hague Academy of International Law in Netherlands. Boutros-Ghali served in the Ministry of State for Foreign Affairs under President Anwar Sadat and was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1979, succeeding Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel and preceding Mustafa Khalil. On 1 January 1992 he was chosen to be Secretary-General of the United Nations, and his tenure included the Rwandan Genocide, Bosnian War, and the Somali Civil War. Boutros-Ghali died in 2016 at the age of 93.